Neu in Opera 9

• BitTorrent: Sie benötigen keine separate BitTorrent-Anwendung mehr, um sehr große Dateien herunterzuladen. Klicken Sie einfach auf einen Torrent-Link und starten Sie den Download.
• Inhalte blockieren: Entfernen Sie Werbung oder Bilder – ganz wie Sie es möchten. Klicken Sie mit der rechten Maustaste (CTRL+Klick bei Mac) in die Webseite und wählen Sie „Inhalt blockieren“.
• Fügen Sie Ihre Lieblings-Suchmaschinen hinzu: Klicken Sie mit der rechten Maustaste in das Suchfeld der entsprechenden Seite und wählen Sie im Menü die Option „Suche erstellen“.
• Miniaturbilder für Tabs: In Opera ist es einfach, gleichzeitig mehrere Tabs zu öffnen. Aber in welchem Tab befand sich jetzt das von Ihnen gewünschte Video? Bewegen Sie Ihren Mauszeiger über einen beliebigen Tab, um ein Miniaturbild als Vorschau angezeigt zu bekommen.
• Seitenspezifische Einstellungen: Möchten Sie eine andere Darstellung bei einer Site oder bestimmte Cookies ablehnen? Möchten Sie Pop-ups nur auf bestimmten Sites blockieren? Klicken Sie mit der rechten Maustaste in die Seite und wählen Sie „Seitenspezifische Einstellungen“.
• Widgets: Widgets sind kleine Web-Anwendungen (z.B. Multimedia, Newsfeeds, Spiele usw.), die Ihnen ein weiteres Desktop-Erlebnis bringen. Über das Menü „Widgets“ haben Sie Zugriff auf neue Widgets und können auf Ihre Lieblings-Widgets zugreifen. Besuchen Sie widgets.opera.com, um mehr darüber zu erfahren.
• Verbesserte Rich-Textbearbeitung: Benutzen Sie erweiterte Möglichkeiten zur Textbearbeitung in den aktuell beliebten Webanwendungen.

Download:

• Opera 9.01 Final [Windows]
• Opera 9.01 Final [Linux]
• Opera 9.01 Final [Mac]

Links zum Thema:

• Opera 9.01 - Release Notes Windows
• Opera 9.01 - Release Notes Linux
• Opera 9.01 - Release Notes Mac
• Opera 9 Screenshots
• Opera 9 Features

Danke an CyLord83 für den Hinweis!

-> Kommentare

The SeaMonkey name was adopted by the project leading group (dubbed "SeaMonkey Council") after considering a long list of community-proposed names - it was decided that the long-lived internal code name still suited the project best. It was no easy decision, but it has a certain appeal - the suite is already known by SeaMonkey within the developer community. The council is working on having this name trademarked with the help of the Mozilla Foundation.

While the Foundation doesn't consider the new SeaMonkey application to be an officially supported upgrade path for Mozilla suite users, it provides the newly founded project with assistance in the form of much-needed project infrastructure, and cooperates with SeaMonkey developers. Development of SeaMonkey produces many improvements which are contributed back to the Mozilla codebase, much of which is shared with products including Firefox and Thunderbird.

Mit der neuen Version 1.0.3 wurde nun das dritte Bugfix-Release der SeaMonkey Suite, die Browser, E-Mail/News und IRC Client, sowie den Webeditor Composer umfasst, veröffentlicht. Die Release Notes sehen wie folgt aus :

What's New in SeaMonkey 1.0.3

This document outlines a few of the new features implemented in SeaMonkey 1.0.3, important bugfixes and any new problems. See the "rough changelog" for a more comprehensive list of 1.0.3 fixes. These changes are relative to SeaMonkey 1.0.2

New Features and Fixes

General

• Improved stability
• Several security fixes
• A bug was introduced in SeaMonkey 1.0.2 that sometimes caused the URL bar to stop working properly when switching tabs. This has been fixed. (Bug 332874)
• If you have more bookmarks on your personal toolbar than there is space for, the ">>" overflow icon will now display more reliably (Bug 338803)
• If you choose to update SeaMonkey when it notifies you that an update is available, the update page will load in a more useful browser window (with navigation buttons and toolbars) (Bug 334903)

• SeaMonkey 1.0.3 [Windows Installer] (11,6 MB)
• SeaMonkey 1.0.3 [Windows ZIP-Version] (11,5 MB)
• SeaMonkey 1.0.3 [Linux ohne GTK1] (13,3 MB)
• SeaMonkey 1.0.3 [Linux mit GTK1] (14,0 MB)
• SeaMonkey 1.0.3 [Mac Universal Binary] (23,8 MB)


• SeaMonkey 1.0.3 - Deutsche Sprachdatei (1,6 MB)

Links zum Thema:

• Release Notes
• Former "Mozilla Application Suite" Code sees new development from independent group

-> Kommentare

Mit der Version 3.60 bietet WinRAR erstmals Unterstützung und Optimierungen für Dual-Core CPUs wie z.B. AMDs Athlon 64 X2.

WinRAR - What's new in the latest version

Version 3.60 beta 8

• Stack overflow vulnerability has been corrected in SFX module.

Version 3.60 beta 7

• Stack overflow vulnerability has been corrected in WinRAR module processing LZH archives. We thank Ryan Smith, www.hustlelabs.com, for reporting this problem.

Version 3.60 beta 6

• Switch -ad did not work in GUI winrar.exe.
• When repairing several archives, console RAR did not handle 'No' choice of overwrite archive request properly. It aborted the operation instead of skipping the current archive.

Version 3.60 beta 5

• GUI winrar.exe ignored -mt switch and always used "Multithreading" option from "Settings" dialog. Fixed now.
• Correction in -ilog switch. In some situation the current date was not written to rar.log file.

Version 3.60 beta 4

• Recovery speed improved when repairing heavily damaged archives using the recovery record.
• If volume size field contained a value exceeding 4 GB, it was changed to wrong value after switching to any other page of archiving dialog and returning back to "General" page.
• Update ('u') command did not work properly with some high ASCII names in beta 3.

Version 3.60 beta 3

• Previous beta version could create duplicate copies of same file when updating an archived file with high ASCII characters in file name.
• SFX module crashed if single string length in "License" or "Text" block exceeded 4096 characters.

Version 3.60 beta 2

• Improved Unicode support in the folder tree panel.
• Fixed a bug with incorrect font in the volume size list in Japanese Windows 98.

Version 3.60 beta 1

• Multithreaded version of RAR compression algorithm improves the compression speed on computers with several CPU, dual core CPU and processors with hyperthreading technology. Multithreading is enabled by default, but you can disable it in "General" part of "Settings" dialog. In the command line mode you can control multithreading with -mt switch.
• WinRAR can display the folder tree panel allowing to navigate in disk and archive folders. Use "Options/Folder tree" submenu to enable the folder tree. It can be configured separately in file and archive management modes.Folder tree replaces "Browse for folder" command previously available in "File" menu and uses its Ctrl+T keyboard shortcut.
• Now WinRAR "Rename" command also works with ZIP archives. Previous versions could rename files only in RAR archives.
• Added decompression of LZH archives created with "-lh7-" algorithm.
• New "Remove duplicate folders from extraction path" option in "Settings/Compression" dialog.If this option is on and you unpack an archive which root folder has no files and only one 'somename' folder and if destination folder is new or empty and also ends with '/somename', WinRAR will exclude one 'somename' from resulting 'somename/somename' path.
• New "Define volume sizes..." button in "Settings/Compression". This button activates "Define volume sizes" dialog. Here you can customize the list of predefined volume sizes associated with "Split to volumes, bytes" field in archiving dialog.
• Speed of RAR general compression increased for some data types. Depending on data type and size the gain may achieve 5 - 15%.
• New "Rename automatically" option in the extraction dialog and command line -or switch to rename extracted files automatically if file with the same name already exists. You can also enable the auto-renaming mode directly from the overwrite confirmation prompt with "Rename All" button.Renamed files will get names like 'filename(N).txt', where 'filename.txt' is the original file name and 'N' is a number.
• "Set modification time" option in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog is accessible also for ZIP archives. Previously it could be changed only for RAR archives.
• "Multithreading" option added to "Benchmark and hardware test" command, so you can compare performance of usual and multithreaded versions of RAR compression algorithm.
• New 'ch' (change archive parameters) command line mode command. Its purpose is to apply switches like -av, -tl and -cl to archive.
• New 'cv' command line mode command. It provides the command line interface to WinRAR "Convert archives" command. It is supported only by winrar.exe, not by rar.exe.
• New command line -sl and -sm switches to set size limits of processing files.
• New command line -fcu[file] switch allows to read archive comments from Unicode files. It also modifies behavior of "cw" command, setting the comment output format to Unicode.
• 7Z added to list of formats stored without compression when using -ms switch without a parameter.
• Switch -e[+] is now supported by most of command line operations including extracting and deleting files. Previously it was supported by only archiving command.
• It is allowed to use environment variables in archive name in archiving dialog, in destination path in extraction dialog, in folder names on "Compression" and "Paths" pages in WinRAR settings. For example, you can enter '%temp%' in "Folder for temporary files" field.

Download:

• WinRAR 3.60 beta 8 - Trial Version [Windows]

• Was ist eine Beta-Version

• WinRAR Changelog

Mit der Version 3.60 bietet WinRAR erstmals eine Unterstützung für Dual-Core CPUs wie z.B. AMDs Athlon 64 X2.

WinRAR - What's new in the latest version

Version 3.60 beta 7

• Stack overflow vulnerability has been corrected in WinRAR module processing LZH archives. We thank Ryan Smith, www.hustlelabs.com, for reporting this problem.

Version 3.60 beta 6

• Switch -ad did not work in GUI winrar.exe.
• When repairing several archives, console RAR did not handle 'No' choice of overwrite archive request properly. It aborted the operation instead of skipping the current archive.

Version 3.60 beta 5

• GUI winrar.exe ignored -mt switch and always used "Multithreading" option from "Settings" dialog. Fixed now.
• Correction in -ilog switch. In some situation the current date was not written to rar.log file.

Version 3.60 beta 4

• Recovery speed improved when repairing heavily damaged archives using the recovery record.
• If volume size field contained a value exceeding 4 GB, it was changed to wrong value after switching to any other page of archiving dialog and returning back to "General" page.
• Update ('u') command did not work properly with some high ASCII names in beta 3.

Version 3.60 beta 3

• Previous beta version could create duplicate copies of same file when updating an archived file with high ASCII characters in file name.
• SFX module crashed if single string length in "License" or "Text" block exceeded 4096 characters.

Version 3.60 beta 2

• Improved Unicode support in the folder tree panel.
• Fixed a bug with incorrect font in the volume size list in Japanese Windows 98.

Version 3.60 beta 1

• Multithreaded version of RAR compression algorithm improves the compression speed on computers with several CPU, dual core CPU and processors with hyperthreading technology. Multithreading is enabled by default, but you can disable it in "General" part of "Settings" dialog. In the command line mode you can control multithreading with -mt switch.
• WinRAR can display the folder tree panel allowing to navigate in disk and archive folders. Use "Options/Folder tree" submenu to enable the folder tree. It can be configured separately in file and archive management modes.Folder tree replaces "Browse for folder" command previously available in "File" menu and uses its Ctrl+T keyboard shortcut.
• Now WinRAR "Rename" command also works with ZIP archives. Previous versions could rename files only in RAR archives.
• Added decompression of LZH archives created with "-lh7-" algorithm.
• New "Remove duplicate folders from extraction path" option in "Settings/Compression" dialog.If this option is on and you unpack an archive which root folder has no files and only one 'somename' folder and if destination folder is new or empty and also ends with '/somename', WinRAR will exclude one 'somename' from resulting 'somename/somename' path.
• New "Define volume sizes..." button in "Settings/Compression". This button activates "Define volume sizes" dialog. Here you can customize the list of predefined volume sizes associated with "Split to volumes, bytes" field in archiving dialog.
• Speed of RAR general compression increased for some data types. Depending on data type and size the gain may achieve 5 - 15%.
• New "Rename automatically" option in the extraction dialog and command line -or switch to rename extracted files automatically if file with the same name already exists. You can also enable the auto-renaming mode directly from the overwrite confirmation prompt with "Rename All" button.Renamed files will get names like 'filename(N).txt', where 'filename.txt' is the original file name and 'N' is a number.
• "Set modification time" option in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog is accessible also for ZIP archives. Previously it could be changed only for RAR archives.
• "Multithreading" option added to "Benchmark and hardware test" command, so you can compare performance of usual and multithreaded versions of RAR compression algorithm.
• New 'ch' (change archive parameters) command line mode command. Its purpose is to apply switches like -av, -tl and -cl to archive.
• New 'cv' command line mode command. It provides the command line interface to WinRAR "Convert archives" command. It is supported only by winrar.exe, not by rar.exe.
• New command line -sl and -sm switches to set size limits of processing files.
• New command line -fcu[file] switch allows to read archive comments from Unicode files. It also modifies behavior of "cw" command, setting the comment output format to Unicode.
• 7Z added to list of formats stored without compression when using -ms switch without a parameter.
• Switch -e[+] is now supported by most of command line operations including extracting and deleting files. Previously it was supported by only archiving command.
• It is allowed to use environment variables in archive name in archiving dialog, in destination path in extraction dialog, in folder names on "Compression" and "Paths" pages in WinRAR settings. For example, you can enter '%temp%' in "Folder for temporary files" field.

Download:

• WinRAR 3.60 beta 7 - Trial Version [Windows]

Links zum Thema:

• WinRAR Changelog

Danke SPINA für den Hinweis!

-> Kommentare

Heise online hat das Problem von Threads, die sich per Timestamp-Counter synchronisieren und dabei aus dem Takt geraten, bereits Ende letzten Jahres unter dem Titel "Zeitmissmanagement" beschrieben.

Die Beschreibung von AMD:

"The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer can help improve some PC gaming video performance by compensating for those applications that bypass the Windows API for timing by directly using the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. Applications that rely on RDTSC do not benefit from the logic in the operating system to properly account for the affect of power management mechanisms on the rate at which a processor core's Time Stamp Counter (TSC) is incremented. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer helps to correct the resulting video performance effects or other incorrect timing effects that these applications may experience on dual-core or multiple processor systems."

Dank an Tortelot, Tasse, klein van, UMC und Coolermaster für den Hinweis.

Einen Thread mit ersten Erfahrungberichten zu dem Tool finder Ihr bei uns im Forum.

-> Kommentare

Mit der Version 3.60 bietet WinRAR erstmals eine Unterstützung für Dual-Core CPUs wie z.B. AMDs Athlon 64 X2.

WinRAR - What's new in the latest version

Version 3.60 beta 6

• Switch -ad did not work in GUI winrar.exe.
• When repairing several archives, console RAR did not handle 'No' choice of overwrite archive request properly. It aborted the operation instead of skipping the current archive.

Version 3.60 beta 5

• GUI winrar.exe ignored -mt switch and always used "Multithreading" option from "Settings" dialog. Fixed now.
• Correction in -ilog switch. In some situation the current date was not written to rar.log file.

Version 3.60 beta 4

• Recovery speed improved when repairing heavily damaged archives using the recovery record.
• If volume size field contained a value exceeding 4 GB, it was changed to wrong value after switching to any other page of archiving dialog and returning back to "General" page.
• Update ('u') command did not work properly with some high ASCII names in beta 3.

Version 3.60 beta 3

• Previous beta version could create duplicate copies of same file when updating an archived file with high ASCII characters in file name.
• SFX module crashed if single string length in "License" or "Text" block exceeded 4096 characters.

Version 3.60 beta 2

• Improved Unicode support in the folder tree panel.
• Fixed a bug with incorrect font in the volume size list in Japanese Windows 98.

Version 3.60 beta 1

• Multithreaded version of RAR compression algorithm improves the compression speed on computers with several CPU, dual core CPU and processors with hyperthreading technology. Multithreading is enabled by default, but you can disable it in "General" part of "Settings" dialog. In the command line mode you can control multithreading with -mt switch.
• WinRAR can display the folder tree panel allowing to navigate in disk and archive folders. Use "Options/Folder tree" submenu to enable the folder tree. It can be configured separately in file and archive management modes.Folder tree replaces "Browse for folder" command previously available in "File" menu and uses its Ctrl+T keyboard shortcut.
• Now WinRAR "Rename" command also works with ZIP archives. Previous versions could rename files only in RAR archives.
• Added decompression of LZH archives created with "-lh7-" algorithm.
• New "Remove duplicate folders from extraction path" option in "Settings/Compression" dialog.If this option is on and you unpack an archive which root folder has no files and only one 'somename' folder and if destination folder is new or empty and also ends with '/somename', WinRAR will exclude one 'somename' from resulting 'somename/somename' path.
• New "Define volume sizes..." button in "Settings/Compression". This button activates "Define volume sizes" dialog. Here you can customize the list of predefined volume sizes associated with "Split to volumes, bytes" field in archiving dialog.
• Speed of RAR general compression increased for some data types. Depending on data type and size the gain may achieve 5 - 15%.
• New "Rename automatically" option in the extraction dialog and command line -or switch to rename extracted files automatically if file with the same name already exists. You can also enable the auto-renaming mode directly from the overwrite confirmation prompt with "Rename All" button.Renamed files will get names like 'filename(N).txt', where 'filename.txt' is the original file name and 'N' is a number.
• "Set modification time" option in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog is accessible also for ZIP archives. Previously it could be changed only for RAR archives.
• "Multithreading" option added to "Benchmark and hardware test" command, so you can compare performance of usual and multithreaded versions of RAR compression algorithm.
• New 'ch' (change archive parameters) command line mode command. Its purpose is to apply switches like -av, -tl and -cl to archive.
• New 'cv' command line mode command. It provides the command line interface to WinRAR "Convert archives" command. It is supported only by winrar.exe, not by rar.exe.
• New command line -sl and -sm switches to set size limits of processing files.
• New command line -fcu[file] switch allows to read archive comments from Unicode files. It also modifies behavior of "cw" command, setting the comment output format to Unicode.
• 7Z added to list of formats stored without compression when using -ms switch without a parameter.
• Switch -e[+] is now supported by most of command line operations including extracting and deleting files. Previously it was supported by only archiving command.
• It is allowed to use environment variables in archive name in archiving dialog, in destination path in extraction dialog, in folder names on "Compression" and "Paths" pages in WinRAR settings. For example, you can enter '%temp%' in "Folder for temporary files" field.

Download:

• WinRAR 3.60 beta 6 - Trial Version [Windows]


• RAR 3.60 beta 4 - Free Version [Pocket PC]
• RAR 3.60 beta 6 - Trial Version [DOS, Command line only]
• RAR 3.60 beta 6 - Trial Version [Linux, Command line only]
• RAR 3.60 beta 6 - Trial Version [FreeBSD, Command line only]
• RAR 3.60 beta 6 - Trial Version [MacOS X, Command line only]

Links zum Thema:

• WinRAR Changelog

-> Kommentare

Laut VIA ist das Paket für alle VIA-Chipsätze geeignet, insbesondere aber für die KT4##, P4X4## Serien und neuere Produkte.

Version 5.09A includes the following components:

• INF V2.70B
• AGP V4.50E
• V-RAID V5.30C and RAID Tools v5.30
• PATA/SATA IDE Driver V1.40A

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows XP Family (x86, x64)
• Windows Server 2003 Family (x86, x64)
• Windows 2000, Windows 9x , Windows NT4

Download:

• VIA Hyperion Pro Version 5.09A

• Release Notes

Danke an Txxxxs, MDG, klein van und MatzeG für das Einsenden dieser Meldung.

-> Kommentare

Microsoft hat beim IE7 die Benutzeroberfläche vollständig überarbeitet, der Browser unterstützt nun u.a. das von der Konkurrenz und diversen IE-Browseraufsätzen bekannte Tabbed Browsing, RSS Feeds, eine frei konfigurierbare Suchleiste und verfügt über einen integrierten Phishing-Schutz. Eine Übersicht der diversen Neuerungen führt Microsoft in einer Feature-Liste auf.

Zudem hat Microsoft eine Webseite eingerichtetet, die verschiedene Erweiterungen für den IE7 bereithält.

Nun hat Microsoft die dritte offizielle Beta-Version des Internet Explorer 7 veröffentlicht, vorerst ausschließlich in englischer Sprache. Lokalisierte Versionen sollen in nächster Zeit folgen.

In einem Blog-Eintrag machen die Entwickler folgende Anmerkungen zur Beta 3:

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 for Windows XP (and more) Now Available

This morning we released IE7 Beta 3 for Windows XP. This version includes improvements in reliability, compatibility, security, and a few end user features. Give it a try at [url]http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx[/url].

Based on your feedback, we’ve made some changes to IE7. Beta 3 returns the email button to the toolbar customize dialog (one of the most requested features), and enables reordering of tabs by dragging them to the left or right. In this version you can also scroll horizontally while zooming. To improve the RSS experience, IE7 now allows you to update all your RSS feeds on-demand as well as mark them all “READ”.

Beta 3 also contains all the security fixes addressed in the June IE security bulletin, so we encourage all Beta 2 users to upgrade to Beta 3.

Please remember to uninstall any previous IE7 builds before installing this one. IE7 Beta 3 runs on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP x64, and Windows Server 2003 SP1. This beta does not install on Windows Vista Beta 2; a new version of IE7+ in Windows Vista will be available with the next public Windows Vista release soon. IE7 still replaces IE6; if you’re a developer and need to have both IE6 and IE7 on a single machine, I recommend Microsoft Virtual PC (here’s a link to their 45-day free trial version) or Chris Wilson’s post on the subject.

As with Beta 2, we’ll release German, Finnish, Arabic, and Japanese versions in the next few weeks.

I’m looking forward to reading the feedback - positive and negative - as it comes in. I also want to encourage developers, web developers, designers, and IT Pros to use Readiness Toolkit to help you deliver the best possible experience to your sites’ IE7 visitors.

Today’s release is the final beta for IE7. Our next steps are the Release Candidates followed by general availability in the second half of the year.

Thanks,
Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager

Für die Installation ist ein erfolgreicher Windows Genuine Advantage Check notwendig. Bei einer ungültigen Windows Lizenz wird die Installation verweigert.

Download:

• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 [Windows XP SP2 x86] (12,5 MB)
• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 [Windows Server 2003 SP1] (12,5 MB)
• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 [Windows XP & Server 2003 x64] (24,6 MB)

Links zum Thema:

• IEBlog
• Internet Explorer 7 Changelog
• Internet Explorer 7 Webseite
• Internet Explorer 7 Erweiterungen
• Internet Explorer 7 Systemvoraussetzungen

-> Kommentare

Man beachte bitte die einleitenden Hinweise der Release Notes zum neuen E-Mail Speicherformat:

Release Notes

• Opera 9 uses a new account storage format for e-mail. Old mail is not reformatted, but mail received in Opera 9 will not be compatible with previous Opera versions.

At a Glance

• Content blocking
• BitTorrent support
• Widgets
• Search engine editor
• Site preferences
• New installer. One package -- 30 languages
• Integrated source viewer
• opera:config for advanced settings configuration

New in Opera 9

• BitTorrent: You don't need a separate BitTorrent application to download large files. Simply click a torrent link and start the download.
• Content blocker: Remove ads or images - it's up to you. Right-click (CTRL-click on the Mac) on the Web page and choose "Block content".
• Add your favorite search engines: Right-click on the site's search field and select "Create search" from the menu.
• Thumbnail preview: It is easy to have many tabs open at once in Opera. But exactly which tab had that video you wanted? Hover your mouse on any tab to see a thumbnail preview.
• Site preferences: Want to view a site in a different way or deny certain cookies? Want to block pop-ups on certain sites only? Right click and select "Edit site preferences".
• Widgets: Small Web applications (multimedia, newsfeeds, games and more) that make your desktop experience more fun. Use the Widgets menu to discover new widgets and access your favorites. Visit widgets.opera.com to learn more.
• Improved rich text editing: Use advanced text editing features for today's most popular Web applications.

Download:

• Opera 9.0 Final [Windows]
• Opera 9.0 Final [Linux]
• Opera 9.0 Final [Mac]

• Opera 9 Release Notes
• Opera 9 Pressemitteilung
• Opera 9 Screenshots
• Opera 9 Features

Danke an MaXXiMuM, TheMaxx und Perry3D für den Hinweis

-> Kommentare

Mit der Version 3.60 bietet WinRAR erstmals eine Unterstützung für Dual-Core CPUs wie z.B. AMDs Athlon 64 X2.

WinRAR - What's new in the latest version

Version 3.60 beta 5

• GUI winrar.exe ignored -mt switch and always used "Multithreading" option from "Settings" dialog. Fixed now.
• Correction in -ilog switch. In some situation the current date was not written to rar.log file.

Version 3.60 beta 4

• Recovery speed improved when repairing heavily damaged archives using the recovery record.
• If volume size field contained a value exceeding 4 GB, it was changed to wrong value after switching to any other page of archiving dialog and returning back to "General" page.
• Update ('u') command did not work properly with some high ASCII names in beta 3.

Version 3.60 beta 3

• Previous beta version could create duplicate copies of same file when updating an archived file with high ASCII characters in file name.
• SFX module crashed if single string length in "License" or "Text" block exceeded 4096 characters.

Version 3.60 beta 2

• Improved Unicode support in the folder tree panel.
• Fixed a bug with incorrect font in the volume size list in Japanese Windows 98.

Version 3.60 beta 1

• Multithreaded version of RAR compression algorithm improves the compression speed on computers with several CPU, dual core CPU and processors with hyperthreading technology. Multithreading is enabled by default, but you can disable it in "General" part of "Settings" dialog. In the command line mode you can control multithreading with -mt switch.
• WinRAR can display the folder tree panel allowing to navigate in disk and archive folders. Use "Options/Folder tree" submenu to enable the folder tree. It can be configured separately in file and archive management modes.Folder tree replaces "Browse for folder" command previously available in "File" menu and uses its Ctrl+T keyboard shortcut.
• Now WinRAR "Rename" command also works with ZIP archives. Previous versions could rename files only in RAR archives.
• Added decompression of LZH archives created with "-lh7-" algorithm.
• New "Remove duplicate folders from extraction path" option in "Settings/Compression" dialog.If this option is on and you unpack an archive which root folder has no files and only one 'somename' folder and if destination folder is new or empty and also ends with '/somename', WinRAR will exclude one 'somename' from resulting 'somename/somename' path.
• New "Define volume sizes..." button in "Settings/Compression". This button activates "Define volume sizes" dialog. Here you can customize the list of predefined volume sizes associated with "Split to volumes, bytes" field in archiving dialog.
• Speed of RAR general compression increased for some data types. Depending on data type and size the gain may achieve 5 - 15%.
• New "Rename automatically" option in the extraction dialog and command line -or switch to rename extracted files automatically if file with the same name already exists. You can also enable the auto-renaming mode directly from the overwrite confirmation prompt with "Rename All" button.Renamed files will get names like 'filename(N).txt', where 'filename.txt' is the original file name and 'N' is a number.
• "Set modification time" option in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog is accessible also for ZIP archives. Previously it could be changed only for RAR archives.
• "Multithreading" option added to "Benchmark and hardware test" command, so you can compare performance of usual and multithreaded versions of RAR compression algorithm.
• New 'ch' (change archive parameters) command line mode command. Its purpose is to apply switches like -av, -tl and -cl to archive.
• New 'cv' command line mode command. It provides the command line interface to WinRAR "Convert archives" command. It is supported only by winrar.exe, not by rar.exe.
• New command line -sl and -sm switches to set size limits of processing files.
• New command line -fcu[file] switch allows to read archive comments from Unicode files. It also modifies behavior of "cw" command, setting the comment output format to Unicode.
• 7Z added to list of formats stored without compression when using -ms switch without a parameter.
• Switch -e[+] is now supported by most of command line operations including extracting and deleting files. Previously it was supported by only archiving command.
• It is allowed to use environment variables in archive name in archiving dialog, in destination path in extraction dialog, in folder names on "Compression" and "Paths" pages in WinRAR settings. For example, you can enter '%temp%' in "Folder for temporary files" field.

Download:

• WinRAR 3.60 beta 5 - Trial Version [Windows]


• RAR 3.60 beta 4 - Free Version [Pocket PC]
• RAR 3.60 beta 5 - Trial Version [DOS, Command line only]
• RAR 3.60 beta 5 - Trial Version [Linux, Command line only]
• RAR 3.60 beta 5 - Trial Version [FreeBSD, Command line only]
• RAR 3.60 beta 5 - Trial Version [MacOS X, Command line only]

Links zum Thema:

• WinRAR Changelog

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The SeaMonkey name was adopted by the project leading group (dubbed "SeaMonkey Council") after considering a long list of community-proposed names - it was decided that the long-lived internal code name still suited the project best. It was no easy decision, but it has a certain appeal - the suite is already known by SeaMonkey within the developer community. The council is working on having this name trademarked with the help of the Mozilla Foundation.

While the Foundation doesn't consider the new SeaMonkey application to be an officially supported upgrade path for Mozilla suite users, it provides the newly founded project with assistance in the form of much-needed project infrastructure, and cooperates with SeaMonkey developers. Development of SeaMonkey produces many improvements which are contributed back to the Mozilla codebase, much of which is shared with products including Firefox and Thunderbird.

Mit der neuen Version 1.0.2 wurde nun das zweite Bugfix-Release der SeaMonkey Suite, die Browser, E-Mail/News und IRC Client, sowie den Webeditor Composer umfasst, veröffentlicht. Die Release Notes sehen wie folgt aus :

What's New in SeaMonkey 1.0.2

This document outlines a few of the new features implemented in SeaMonkey 1.0.2, important bugfixes and any new problems. See the "rough changelog" for a more comprehensive list of 1.0.2 fixes. These changes are relative to SeaMonkey 1.0.1

New Features and Fixes

General

• Improved stability
• Several security fixes

New Issues

These are items that have been added to the Known Issues page since the last milestone (SeaMonkey 1.0.1), although the bugs themselves may have existed previously.

General

• (Linux) Fedora Core 5 users using SELinux in enforcing mode will experience security permissions problems when using the GTK1 build. Use the GTK2 build instead (recommended), or see this page for more information.

Download:

• SeaMonkey 1.0.2 [Windows Installer] (8,3 MB)
• SeaMonkey 1.0.2 [Windows ZIP-Version] (11,5 MB)
• SeaMonkey 1.0.2 [Linux ohne GTK1] (13,3 MB)
• SeaMonkey 1.0.2 [Linux mit GTK1] (14,0 MB)
• SeaMonkey 1.0.2 [Mac Universal Binary für PPC und Intel] (22,2 MB)

Links zum Thema:

• Release Notes
• Former "Mozilla Application Suite" Code sees new development from independent group

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Mit der Version 3.60 bietet WinRAR erstmals eine Unterstützung für Dual-Core CPUs wie z.B. AMDs Athlon 64 X2.

WinRAR - What's new in the latest version

Version 3.60 beta 4

• Recovery speed improved when repairing heavily damaged archives using the recovery record.
• If volume size field contained a value exceeding 4 GB, it was changed to wrong value after switching to any other page of archiving dialog and returning back to "General" page.
• Update ('u') command did not work properly with some high ASCII names in beta 3.

Version 3.60 beta 3

• Previous beta version could create duplicate copies of same file when updating an archived file with high ASCII characters in file name.
• SFX module crashed if single string length in "License" or "Text" block exceeded 4096 characters.

Version 3.60 beta 2

• Improved Unicode support in the folder tree panel.
• Fixed a bug with incorrect font in the volume size list in Japanese Windows 98.

Version 3.60 beta 1

• Multithreaded version of RAR compression algorithm improves the compression speed on computers with several CPU, dual core CPU and processors with hyperthreading technology. Multithreading is enabled by default, but you can disable it in "General" part of "Settings" dialog. In the command line mode you can control multithreading with -mt switch.
• WinRAR can display the folder tree panel allowing to navigate in disk and archive folders. Use "Options/Folder tree" submenu to enable the folder tree. It can be configured separately in file and archive management modes.Folder tree replaces "Browse for folder" command previously available in "File" menu and uses its Ctrl+T keyboard shortcut.
• Now WinRAR "Rename" command also works with ZIP archives. Previous versions could rename files only in RAR archives.
• Added decompression of LZH archives created with "-lh7-" algorithm.
• New "Remove duplicate folders from extraction path" option in "Settings/Compression" dialog.If this option is on and you unpack an archive which root folder has no files and only one 'somename' folder and if destination folder is new or empty and also ends with '/somename', WinRAR will exclude one 'somename' from resulting 'somename/somename' path.
• New "Define volume sizes..." button in "Settings/Compression". This button activates "Define volume sizes" dialog. Here you can customize the list of predefined volume sizes associated with "Split to volumes, bytes" field in archiving dialog.
• Speed of RAR general compression increased for some data types. Depending on data type and size the gain may achieve 5 - 15%.
• New "Rename automatically" option in the extraction dialog and command line -or switch to rename extracted files automatically if file with the same name already exists. You can also enable the auto-renaming mode directly from the overwrite confirmation prompt with "Rename All" button.Renamed files will get names like 'filename(N).txt', where 'filename.txt' is the original file name and 'N' is a number.
• "Set modification time" option in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog is accessible also for ZIP archives. Previously it could be changed only for RAR archives.
• "Multithreading" option added to "Benchmark and hardware test" command, so you can compare performance of usual and multithreaded versions of RAR compression algorithm.
• New 'ch' (change archive parameters) command line mode command. Its purpose is to apply switches like -av, -tl and -cl to archive.
• New 'cv' command line mode command. It provides the command line interface to WinRAR "Convert archives" command. It is supported only by winrar.exe, not by rar.exe.
• New command line -sl and -sm switches to set size limits of processing files.
• New command line -fcu[file] switch allows to read archive comments from Unicode files. It also modifies behavior of "cw" command, setting the comment output format to Unicode.
• 7Z added to list of formats stored without compression when using -ms switch without a parameter.
• Switch -e[+] is now supported by most of command line operations including extracting and deleting files. Previously it was supported by only archiving command.
• It is allowed to use environment variables in archive name in archiving dialog, in destination path in extraction dialog, in folder names on "Compression" and "Paths" pages in WinRAR settings. For example, you can enter '%temp%' in "Folder for temporary files" field.

Download:

• WinRAR 3.60 beta 4 - Trial Version [Windows]


• RAR 3.60 beta 4 - Free Version [Pocket PC]
• RAR 3.60 beta 4 - Trial Version [DOS, Command line only]
• RAR 3.60 beta 4 - Trial Version [Linux, Command line only]
• RAR 3.60 beta 4 - Trial Version [FreeBSD, Command line only]
• RAR 3.60 beta 4 - Trial Version [MacOS X, Command line only]

Links zum Thema:

• WinRAR Changelog

Kommentare

Man beachte bitte folgende einleitende Hinweise der Release Notes:

Release Notes

• This is a beta version of Opera. Use only on properly backed up computers.
• This release uses a new account storage format. If you install over an existing profile, you will be prompted to convert all accounts into the new format. This will not require a re-index. You will not be able to use the reformatted e-mail with previous versions of Opera.
• The widget.setPreferenceForKey method is not able to store widget preferences in this release.

Opera 9 verfügt über eine Reihe neuer Features wie z.B. einen integrierten Bittorrent-Client oder die Möglichkeit programmierbarer Widgets (Learn more about Widgets).

New features in Opera 9 include

• Widgets - Small Web applications (multimedia, newsfeeds, games and more) that make your desktop experience more fun. Any Web developer can create their own Widgets and share them, regardless of operating system. Try the Widgets in Opera 9 by pressing F6. Look for further development of Opera Widgets in future releases.
• BitTorrent - Instead of having to use a separate BitTorrent application for downloading large files, users can now simply click a torrent file and start the download
• Content blocker - Choose the content you want to view. Remove ads or images - it is up to you. Right-click on the Web page and choose "Block content"
• Improved rich text editing - Take advantage of rich text editing capabilities when using the latest Web mail or blogging services
• Customize your search engines – Use your favorite search engine in the search box. Right-click on the site's search field and select "Create search" from the menu
• Thumbnail preview – It's easy to have many tabs open at once in Opera. But exactly which tab had that video you wanted? Hover any tab to see a thumbnail preview
• Site-specific preferences - Do you need to view a site in a different way or deny certain cookies? Want to block pop-ups on certain sites only? Site specific preferences hold the key

Download:

• Opera 9.0 Beta 2 [Windows]
• Opera 9.0 Beta 2 [Linux]
• Opera 9.0 Beta 2 [Mac]

Links zum Thema:

• Opera 9 Beta - Release Notes Windows
• Opera 9 Beta - Release Notes Linux
• Opera 9 Beta - Release Notes Mac

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Mit der Version 3.60 bietet WinRAR erstmals eine Unterstützung für Dual-Core CPUs wie z.B. AMDs Athlon 64 X2.

WinRAR - What's new in the latest version

Version 3.60 beta 3

• Previous beta version could create duplicate copies of same file when updating an archived file with high ASCII characters in file name.
• SFX module crashed if single string length in "License" or "Text" block exceeded 4096 characters.

• Improved Unicode support in the folder tree panel.
• Fixed a bug with incorrect font in the volume size list in Japanese Windows 98.

• Multithreaded version of RAR compression algorithm improves the compression speed on computers with several CPU, dual core CPU and processors with hyperthreading technology. Multithreading is enabled by default, but you can disable it in "General" part of "Settings" dialog. In the command line mode you can control multithreading with -mt switch.
• WinRAR can display the folder tree panel allowing to navigate in disk and archive folders. Use "Options/Folder tree" submenu to enable the folder tree. It can be configured separately in file and archive management modes.Folder tree replaces "Browse for folder" command previously available in "File" menu and uses its Ctrl+T keyboard shortcut.
• Now WinRAR "Rename" command also works with ZIP archives. Previous versions could rename files only in RAR archives.
• Added decompression of LZH archives created with "-lh7-" algorithm.
• New "Remove duplicate folders from extraction path" option in "Settings/Compression" dialog.If this option is on and you unpack an archive which root folder has no files and only one 'somename' folder and if destination folder is new or empty and also ends with '/somename', WinRAR will exclude one 'somename' from resulting 'somename/somename' path.
• New "Define volume sizes..." button in "Settings/Compression". This button activates "Define volume sizes" dialog. Here you can customize the list of predefined volume sizes associated with "Split to volumes, bytes" field in archiving dialog.
• Speed of RAR general compression increased for some data types. Depending on data type and size the gain may achieve 5 - 15%.
• New "Rename automatically" option in the extraction dialog and command line -or switch to rename extracted files automatically if file with the same name already exists. You can also enable the auto-renaming mode directly from the overwrite confirmation prompt with "Rename All" button.Renamed files will get names like 'filename(N).txt', where 'filename.txt' is the original file name and 'N' is a number.
• "Set modification time" option in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog is accessible also for ZIP archives. Previously it could be changed only for RAR archives.
• "Multithreading" option added to "Benchmark and hardware test" command, so you can compare performance of usual and multithreaded versions of RAR compression algorithm.
• New 'ch' (change archive parameters) command line mode command. Its purpose is to apply switches like -av, -tl and -cl to archive.
• New 'cv' command line mode command. It provides the command line interface to WinRAR "Convert archives" command. It is supported only by winrar.exe, not by rar.exe.
• New command line -sl and -sm switches to set size limits of processing files.
• New command line -fcu[file] switch allows to read archive comments from Unicode files. It also modifies behavior of "cw" command, setting the comment output format to Unicode.
• 7Z added to list of formats stored without compression when using -ms switch without a parameter.
• Switch -e[+] is now supported by most of command line operations including extracting and deleting files. Previously it was supported by only archiving command.
• It is allowed to use environment variables in archive name in archiving dialog, in destination path in extraction dialog, in folder names on "Compression" and "Paths" pages in WinRAR settings. For example, you can enter '%temp%' in "Folder for temporary files" field.

Download:

• WinRAR 3.60 beta 3 - Trial Version [Windows]


• RAR 3.60 beta 3 - Free Version [Pocket PC]
• RAR 3.60 beta 3 - Trial Version [DOS, Command line only]
• RAR 3.60 beta 3 - Trial Version [Linux, Command line only]
• RAR 3.60 beta 3 - Trial Version [FreeBSD, Command line only]
• RAR 3.60 beta 3 - Trial Version [MacOS X, Command line only]

Links zum Thema:

• WinRAR Changelog

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Microsoft hat beim IE7 die Benutzeroberfläche vollständig überarbeitet, der Browser unterstützt nun u.a. das von der Konkurrenz und diversen IE-Browseraufsätzen bekannte Tabbed Browsing, RSS Feeds, eine frei konfigurierbare Suchleiste und verfügt über einen integrierten Phishing-Schutz. Eine Übersicht der diversen Neuerungen führt Microsoft in einer Feature-Liste auf.

Nun hat Microsoft die zweite offizielle Beta-Version des Internet Explorer 7 veröffentlicht, vorerst ausschließlich in englischer Sprache. Lokalisierte Versionen sollen offenbar im Mai folgen. Mit diesem öffentlichen Beta-Test will Microsoft möglichst viele Anwender zum Testen bewegen und bietet zusätzlich telefonischen Support für die Beta-Tester des IE7, zunächst allerdings beschränkt auf amerikanische Nutzer.

Starting with Beta 2, we’ll be having beta phone support for consumer IE7 Beta users. Basically, support will be limited to help out our customers in a non-domain environment with their IE7 beta issues. So if you have questions or issues that are more developer, enterprise, or business related such as IEAK issues, group policy changes, or coding CSS pages for IE7, then it’ll be out of scope for the help we can provide on this support line. (Quelle : IEBlog)

Zudem hat Microsoft eine Webseite eingerichtetet, die verschiedene Erweiterungen für den IE7 bereithält.

System Requirements

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 should not be used on production systems in mission-critical environments. Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 will run on Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

Für die Installation ist ein erfolgreicher Windows Genuine Advantage Check notwendig. Bei einer ungültigen Windows Lizenz wird die Installation verweigert.

Download:

• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 [Windows XP SP2 x86] (11,9 MB)
• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 [Windows Server 2003 x86] (11,9 MB)
• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 [Windows Server 2003 IA64] (23,3 MB)


• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 [Windows XP SP2 x86] (12,0 MB)
• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 [Windows Server 2003 x86] (12,0 MB)
• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 [Windows Server 2003 IA64] (30,0 MB)

Update: Microsoft hat nun auch die deutsche Version der Beta 2 des Internet Explorer 7 zum Download freigegeben.

Links zum Thema:

• IEBlog
• Internet Explorer 7 Changelog
• Internet Explorer 7 Webseite
• Internet Explorer 7 Erweiterungen
• Internet Explorer 7 Systemvoraussetzungen

Danke an Jensematz für den Hinweis!

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Mangels Changelog lässt sich leider nicht feststellen, was sich nun kurzfristig mit dem neuen Update 7.2.0.3b gegenüber der Version 7.2.0.3 geändert hat.

Download:

• Nero 7 Update 7.2.0.3b (127.6 MB) - Mirror 1
• Nero 7 Update 7.2.0.3b (127.6 MB) - Mirror 2
• Nero 7 Update 7.2.0.3b (127.6 MB) - Mirror 3
• Nero 7 Update 7.2.0.3b (127.6 MB) - Mirror 4
• Nero 7 Update 7.2.0.3b (127.6 MB) - Mirror 5


• Nero 7 Update 7.2.0.3b (127.6 MB) - BitTorrent

Update (28.04.2006): Ein Changelog liegt zwar wie üblich bisher noch nicht vor, allerdings hat die Nero AG zur neuen Version 7.2.0.3/b aufgrund vieler Neuerungen und Verbesserungen eigens eine allerdings englischsprachige Pressemitteilung veröffentlicht.

New Version adds Blu-ray data recording, redesigned performance features to the leading all-in-one digital media solution

Karlsbad, Germany (April 26, 2006) -- Nero, leaders in digital media technology, unveil today the newest and most powerful version of the Nero 7 software suite to-date. An all-in-one solution for the management of data, audio, video, photo and TV content, Nero 7 is a comprehensive tool for today’s digital home. Nero 7 now enables Blu-ray data recording and adds many new and updated applications such as Nero Search and Nero Home to empower users even more than before. Current Nero 7 customers will be able to receive a free online update at www.nero.com.

“Nero 7 supports the digital lifestyle with a very powerful suite of applications,” said Jim Corbett, Executive Director, Nero AG. “From the new Blu-ray recording capability to the convenience of Nero Search, Nero 7’s features and performance makes it an unbeatable solution for just about anything you would want to do within the networked home.”

Nero Burning ROM and Nero Express enable Blu-ray data recording that is readable on every operating system (Windows 98 SE/Me, Windows 2000, XP and Vista), multi-session writing on BD-R/RE media and the creation of 1:1 copies of any unprotected BD media.

Nero Search is a new application designed to help users find information no matter where it is on a computer or the Internet. It enables users to switch easily between computer and Internet search results within the same windows. Nero Search works in conjunction with the Nero Scout database, allowing all stored media content to be quickly located as needed.

Nero Home enables users to manage their digital files from the comfort of their living rooms with ease. The application now features an integrated Electronic Program Guide (EPG) and also offers access to more content from more sources with support for DVB (T, S, and C) TV standards. The next Nero 7 web update will also support ATSC standards.

Furthermore, Nero Home now gives users more tools to enhance their slide shows. This wide range of tools allows them to customize transitions, add audio to match the slide show length, export a slide show with embedded sound to an MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 movie, and find matching photos stored on a PC or an attached device. Ensuring audiophile quality, Nero Home now enables the recording and playback of surround sound audio files. You can also capture video files from many sources, including TV cards, graphics cards, camcorders, VCRs, and webcams (composite/S-video).

DVD presentations come to life with the Nero Vision application’s automatically-generated animated 3D menus. Compelling introductory video and transitions between menus and video clips are easily produced with two easy-to-use templates. Additional templates are planned for future updates.

Ensuring superior reproduction quality for DVD presentations of any length, the Nero Vision “Fit-To-Disc” feature automatically sets the highest possible encoding video quality (Bit rate), based on the length of the video files and remaining disc space, before burning a DVD or VR disc.

Performance and convenience improvements have also been made to the Nero BackItUp, Nero SoundTrax and Nero WaveEditor applications.

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